Tickets :: [#10094] Support multiple mailboxes in IMAP search command

6.0.0-alpha10

5/14/25

Summary	Support multiple mailboxes in IMAP search command
Queue	IMP
Queue Version	Git master
Type	Enhancement
State	Accepted
Priority	2. Medium
Owners
Requester	slusarz (at) horde (dot) org
Created	05/18/2011 (5110 days ago)
Due
Updated	08/25/2014 (3915 days ago)
Assigned
Resolved
Milestone
Patch	No

08/25/2014 05:55:03 PM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #5	Reply to this comment
Keep in mind though that there currently are either no or very few IMAP servers that actually implement this capability. Which is why it hasn't been implemented yet. On the other hand, no IMAP server supports UTF8 yet and Horde_Imap_Client does. Always going to be a chicken/egg problem when first implementing protocols, so it doesn't hurt to be an early adopter.

08/25/2014 08:31:39 AM	giel (at) fsfe (dot) org	Comment #4	Reply to this comment
Accepting multiple mailboxes will allow us to leverage the power of RFC 6237 (MULTISEARCH). However, this will be a API-breaking change in Horde_Imap_Client_Base::search() - first parameter will need to be changed to allow an array of mailboxes - so it will require IMP 5.1. Keep in mind though that there currently are either no or very few IMAP servers that actually implement this capability. http://www.imapwiki.org/Specs#line-61

12/06/2011 06:31:43 AM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #3 Milestone ⇒	Reply to this comment
IMP 6. No BC breaks in a major version. This does not need to wait for IMP 6. Still mulling how I want to implement this though. Currently, the logic in Horde_Imap_Client_Base#search() is very mailbox specific - primarily for caching reasons - so this is more difficult than just looping through a list of mailboxes passed to search().

05/18/2011 08:15:30 AM	Jan Schneider	Comment #2 Milestone ⇒ 6	Reply to this comment
IMP 6. No BC breaks in a major version.

05/18/2011 06:22:36 AM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #1 Priority ⇒ 2. Medium Type ⇒ Enhancement Summary ⇒ Support multiple mailboxes in IMAP search command Queue ⇒ IMP Milestone ⇒ 5.1 Patch ⇒ No State ⇒ Accepted	Reply to this comment
Accepting multiple mailboxes will allow us to leverage the power of RFC 6237 (MULTISEARCH). However, this will be a API-breaking change in Horde_Imap_Client_Base::search() - first parameter will need to be changed to allow an array of mailboxes - so it will require IMP 5.1.